Category : Local News

govt, nurses to meet today in bid to break impasse Limpho Sello A CRIPPLING strike by nurses and nursing assistants at Queen Mamohato Memorial Hospital...

Pascalinah Kabi PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro has denied ever speaking to controversial businessman, Yan Xie, over the latter’s complaints about ministers seeking M3 million bribes...

Mohalenyane Phakela THE street vendors’ application to reverse the government’s ban on street vending during the hard lockdown failed to take off in the High...

 as 47 out 60 inmates test positive for deadly virus in Qacha’s Nek Mohalenyane Phakela THE raging Covid-19 pandemic is ravaging the country’s prisons. This...

wants govt to account for Covid-19 spending Bereng Mpaki PARLIAMENT will reopen next Monday with the thorny issue of the government’s response to the deadly...

  Herbert Moyo A LEADING local human rights body has slammed the government for its alleged failure to protect the human rights of ordinary citizens...

Mohalenyane Phakela PROMINENT politicians Mothetjoa Metsing and Selibe Mochoboroane will have to wait longer to know whether or not their bid to avoid trial for...

as Majoro implements his first cabinet reshuffle and wields axe on Rantšo, Maliehe Marafaele Mohloboli LABOUR and Employment Minister Keketso Rantšo and her Defence and...

 accuses Chinese businessman Yan Xie of capturing the state criticises court judgement barring govt from evicting Xie from state abattoir. Pascalinah Kabi AFTER a long...

claims ministers demanding multi-million maloti bribes from him. Pascalinah Kabi CONTROVERSIAL Chinese businessman, Yan Xie, has broken his silence, accusing some unnamed cabinet ministers of...

Pascalinah Kabi THE government needs at least M102 million to repair roads and bridges which were severely damaged in six districts by last week’s heavy...

Pascalinah Kabi A LOCAL company, Meraka Lesotho, has won a High Court battle to stop Agriculture and Food Security Minister Tefo Mapesela and the government...

Herbert Moyo HOME Affairs Minister Motlalentoa Letsosa says the government has submitted its report to the United States (US) government detailing the measures it has...

as Covid-19 infection rate declines from 47 percent to 31 percent, but acknowledges infection rate still way above the WHO’s “acceptable” 5 percent rate. Bereng...

Limpho Sello HEALTH workers will be prioritised when Lesotho receives its consignment of the Covid-19 vaccine in April this year Ministry of Health expanded programme...

Pascalinah Kabi DEPUTY Prime Minister Mathibeli Mokhothu says he attended the funeral of former prime minister Metsing Lekhanya to represent the government in line with...

Pakistani national, Qamar, trafficked Pakistanis carrying drugs into Lesotho, prompting His Majesty’s office to ask for a probe into his activities. Mohalenyane Phakela/ Herbert Moyo...

Limpho Sello NURSES and nursing assistants at Queen Mamohato Memorial Hospital (QMMH) have gone on strike to press the government to award them salary increments...

  Nthatuoa Koeshe BASOTHO must strictly adhere to Covid-19 regulations and change the way they have been handling events like funerals if Lesotho is to...

as US govt warns Lesotho’s future is at stake while expressing disappointment over lack of progress in addressing human trafficking concerns Herbert Moyo With only...

as foreign judges’ contracts set to expire next month, govt and judiciary yet to meet with EU to discuss extensions. Mohalenyane Phakela THE high-profile trials...

Ntsebeng Motsoeli ANYONE who flies in and out of the country in violation of the current ban on international travel will be fined M50 000...

Pascalinah Kabi FORMER Lesotho National Development Authority (LNDC) chief executive officer CEO), Mohato Seleke, has been appointed as the new Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) managing...

  Limpho Sello THE National Covid-19 Secretariat (NACOSEC) is intensifying testing and contact tracing for Covid-19 as part of an ambitious 11-day programme to curb the...

Mohalenyane Phakela MAJOR General Metsing Lekhanya, who led the 1986 coup against then Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan, died yesterday at the age of 83. The...

Pascalinah Kabi THE government has denied overshooting the Covid-19 budget, saying by December 2020, it had only spent about M341 million of the initial M698...

  Limpho Sello MOTIMPOSO in Maseru, is in mourning after 28 people died of Covid-19 related complications in just a week, the constituency’s legislator, Thabang...

  Mohalenyane Phakela A LOCAL human rights body, the Transformation Resource Centre (TRC),  has applauded the High Court for jailing two police officers who murdered...